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Shadowlayer
11/13/09

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Another sight of the bullshit that is "social gaming"

You won't believe how much people gets hooked to this shit. And it's even weirder because these are all casual gamers that would pass on the chance of playing games like Sonic or Halo, which look complex but are really simple gameplay-wise. Yet they go and play games like mafia wars which involves lots of strategy (believe it or not) and can take you a long fucking time to get anywhere.

Anyway, I hope these assholes (the people behind the games) get what they deserve: they arent gamers, or game devs, just merely scammers: mafia wars is a rough copy of dope wars, a real game made in......wait for it.......1992! #zynga
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MissNormaDesmond
11/12/09

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This is one reason why I sort of don't blame some of the people who were duped: isn't it perfectly obvious that sooner or later this kind of crap is going to bite you in the ass? Forget how dumb you have to be to give your cell # to an IQ test -- how stupid do you have to be to rob people in plain sight in easily traceable ways and think you can get away with it indefinitely? Or to openly associate yourself with such people? I can see people thinking, "Well, this is probably legit, because how easy would it be to nab these people if it weren't?"
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bens
11/12/09

@MissNormaDesmond: Dumb enough to pay $10 to get the results from a 4 question IQ test. #zynga
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MissNormaDesmond
11/12/09

@bens: Are you saying that the robbers are ultimately as dumb as or dumber than the robbees? Because I'd tend to agree with you. If they'd pulled this as a quick scam and gotten out before they got too much stink on them, I'd have to give them credit for being slick, if sleazy. By sticking with it for this long, I think they've outsmarted themselves pretty badly. #zynga
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bens
11/12/09

@MissNormaDesmond: In this instance, yes. If you're going to be a robber, having an advertising contract with Facebook isn't a good idea. Become an art thief. It saves you from having to pay developers to code crappy games. #zynga
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bens
11/12/09

@MissNormaDesmond: oh yeah, robbees is totally fun to say. #zynga
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